The study concerns the evaluation and quantification of the economic value of ecosystem services (ES) or nature's services in arable farmland. The importance of ES is now very well established and ES have been demonstrated to be of very high economic valu ...

Establishing the economic contribution of visitor activities to national or local gross domestic product (GDP) has been the primary use of Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA). Visitor consumption is distributed throughout numerous sectors of the economy wher ...

In recent years, ‘yield’ has become a central issue in tourism development with many operators and policy analysts now seeking ‘high yield’ tourism. Attempts to maximise yield have sometimes focussed on maximising volume (i.e. visitor numbers or revenue). ...

Tourism Strategy 2010 identified the objective of achieving greater financial and economic sustainability from tourism businesses and observed that there were a number of mechanisms that might contribute. This paper has examined Statistics New Zealand Ann ...

This research analyses the effects on the farm sector of the New Zealand agricultural policy reform undertaken in 1985. The analysis is placed within a discussion of the larger issue of the specificity of the farm sector and whether this specificity requi ...

Performance monitoring and benchmarking are important contributors to policy and planning processes. Tourism presents particular challenges as visitor expenditure supports a broad spectrum of commercial activity throughout hundreds of the economy’s indust ...

Drawing conclusions on the performance of the tourism sector requires a distinction to be made as to the type of performance being measured. New Zealand’s Tourism Strategy 2010 considered this issue and recommended that the future emphasis should be on th ...

In the trade and wages debate worldwide, one of the economic puzzles of the last 25 years has been the decline in real wage rates
around the world. This issue is sometimes expressed in terms of a decline in unskilled wage rates relative to skilled rates, ...

Indigenous peoples in many countries have come under increasing pressure to engage in 'successful development' as defined by outsiders. Frequently, traditional 'Western' models for development are imposed on indigenous communities where 'success' is measu ...